Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1887-05-07


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d delightful day and might screspent
at S. j.. Morrow'a valuable home at o
suburo three miles south of Orlando.
He has p good Two Story residence.
fronting on a clear bide lake, with
wealthy homes IN sight. around it. Els
land is actually sioh and productive, al
though chiefly sand. His vegetable
cfops ana fruit trees grow splendidly
aud weate several kinds Of ripe fruit at
his trees. Mrs. Morrow is in such re-
Ietored health and vigor that she enjoys
Doing ali her own work, with her child,
ren's aid, and enjoys life 10 many ways
SHE onoe never expected possible.
Miss Nelie Morrow has grown to be
an attractive and accomplished young
lady, who at the same time is very useful
at home. The boys are pupils of
The Orlando private academy. They
left the breakfast table when the train
whistle was heard, ran out to the gate
with their books and lunch pail, got on
the train and IN i've minutes were at
the school-room door three miles away.
Twelve trains per day GO thunderiag
along past MIR. MorroR's door, four of
WHOM are fuer and faster passenger
trains than those that enter Yankton.
a succession of copious rains has
soaked that coontry since L got my last
orange trees planted, which is the most
gratifying of all because at this season
they often have it too dry. Ipow have
go trees growing and my brother will
soon put in a large number more. Be-
sides oranges | have great faith in the
p~roltableness of peach and other trees
there. The rank growth OF our Florida
peach trees is something astonishing. .
as well as the crop OF fruit q three-year-
old tree bears. This sur prise is greater
when l see that peach trees six to ten
years old in this famous fruit region
OF Tennessee ere actually small,
diseased and thin looking, with ill
shaped and unsightly tops, compared
to trees three and four years old growing
IN the sandy soil OF Orange county.
Then when you consider the fact that
my Florida neighbors will box their ripe
peaches in May or about June LIST and
ship them through this region to the
northern cities Tor high prices, q month
or so hefoge this place can show o ripe
one, 1t increases ones faith IN the fruit
business. For instance, the stra wberries
such as l ate in February bring two dol
lars per quart from the wealthy people
OF New York, and pay the raiser q fine
return. But last Thursday o negro child
at q way station handed very fine straw
berries il ut the car windows for ten
cents for . heaping basketfui.
/ arrived heae last week and began
to look around, / soon met at the depot
DIR. j. M.Miller, looking fresh, healthy
nj Ratiye once more-and behind him
most astonishing sight-Major f. j.
Dewitt. Imagine something OF the Joy
with which we expect to greet our
friends (of the same church, IN paradise
The next few days were spent by us
three reckless Chaps in q round OF gaiety
and dlssipation-after oar own fashion
The major had arrived a few hours be.
fore me, and he insisted on showing us
the town. That is to say, desiring TO see
SiE hinlra1f in ao,a or2 e
tered o carriage and driver with ample
room for all OF US, and took daily rides
among the scores OF places of beauty,
grandeur and historic interest.
AT his kind invitation we ran out on
the fast "belt railroad" to the foot OF
lookout mountain, climbed to the Elm
clined railroad" terminus and sat down
10 the car With ONE twenty-five more.
The great engine in the building began
to work, the cable to run and the cur to
glide smoothly up the rocky reed. bed,
sleeper than house roofs are built,
among the woods and cliffs toward the
summit. Up, up no went, while houses,
trees and hills sank lower
and lower before ne. The view
grew broad and grand. The city showed
like o map. Mission Ridge, four miles
away, sank below the horizon and be-
came insignificant while distant
ranges of mountains doomed
up beyond il in Georgia and Alabama.
Up, np-over high dizzy trestles across
rocky ohasms where we looked down
into the tree tops. HALF way end we
meet the other car going down laden
like u own. No stop but up, up, into
eool air, strong wind and the glories Of
a sunny spring day. Fifty or sixty lives
hanging on the ends of q wire rope that
runs oYer a pully at the top, hoping that
lt may not break and send them like
meteoys to be dashed 10 death at its foot
Dnt there Is no fear. The man in the
tower at the engine house sees us and
has his hand on the controlling wires.
The brakeman can set The car to the
rail as fiFm as q rock in a moment; and
the wire rope he's been tested up to TIC
tons. Will it only pulls less than eight
tons at each end. Arrived near the
summit we changed cars to a narrow
gauge train that runs along the
western cliffs, where dizzy heads must
rot glance down upon the distant ROCKS
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